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## Jeremiah 5:17 in Context (Verses 14–20 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/14) Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/15) Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it *is* a mighty nation, it *is* an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/16) Their quiver *is* as an open sepulchre, they *are* all mighty men.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/17) And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, *which* thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/18) Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/19) ¶ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these *things* unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land *that is* not yours.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/jeremiah/5/20) Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
 
[Jeremiah 4](/kjv/jeremiah/4) [Jeremiah 6](/kjv/jeremiah/6)

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